If I could put my hand on the north star, would it be as beautiful? The sea is lovely, but when we bathe in it the beauty forsakesall the near water. For the imagination and senses cannot be gratified at the same time.

I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.

The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust.

The world proceeds from the same spirit as the body of man. It is a remoter and inferior incarnation of God, a projection of God in the unconscious.

Let us take our bloated nothingness out of the path of the divine circuits.

The ancestor of every action is thought; when we understand that we begin to comprehend that our world is governed by thought and that everything without had its counterpart originally within the mind.

Practice radical humility." He (or she)who masters the art of humility cannot be humiliated.